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' F. E. RUSSELL, Jr.

. JAR HOLDER. No. 561,064. Patented May 26, 1896.

I; qLE WIZWESSES a By AZ: fliiorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

FRANK E. RUSSELL, JR, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOWILLIAM T. ORR, OF SAME PLACE.

JAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,064, dated May 26,1896.

Application filed June 17, 1895. Serial No. 552,998. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. RUSSELL, J r. a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in J ar-Holders; and Ideclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved fruitjar holder, the object being,as the title of the invention implies, to provide a holder for holdingfruit-jars in screwing the top of the jar on and off.

It is well understood that a device of this nature has been found verydesirable and necessary, one which shall be at the same time simple andeconomical, and one which may be readily handled. At the same time it isvery desirable to have a holder for this purpose which can be used withdifferent sizes of jars in a convenient manner.

My invention is designed to supply a holder embodying these desirablefeatures; and it consists of the structure hereinafter specified andclaimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1is a view in perspective showing the holder applied to a jar in positionfor operation. Fig. 2 is a view showing parts of the invention inelevation.

I carry out my invention as follows:

My improved holder consists of two clamps A A, each clamp being formed,preferably, of wire bent intermediate its extremities to form twoclamping-arms a a, the extremities of the wire outward from said armsbeing twisted together to form handles, (indicated at A A The two clampsA A are arranged to have a jointed connection, as at A at theirextremities opposite the handles. The wires constitutin gthe arms a a Iprefer to cover or cushion with a suitable materialas of rubber tubing,for example, (indicated at a a This will enable the operator to get abetter purchase on the jar and also will tend to prevent the slipping ofthe device.

In order that the'device may be used with different-sized jars, Iconstruct one of the clamps opposite the handle with a series ofcorrugations or loops, as indicated at a a and a, arranged at differentdistances the one from the other, each of said loops or corrugationsadapted to receive an eye (indicated at A on the opposite clamp, saideye being slipped into the opposite clamp before its extremities aretwisted together to form the handle, or vice versa. It will be apparentthat when the eye A is engaged in the loop a the clamps may be employedon the largestsized jars in common use-as, for example, a two-quart jar.By slipping the eye A into the loop nearest the loop a as the loop a,the holder may be used, for example, with quart jars, while by slippingthe eye A into the loop a the device may be used in holding pint jars.Obviously the eye A may be readily slipped into any one of the loops asmay be desired for jars of different sizes. I do not limit myself to thenumber of loops or corrugations with which one of the clamps may beprovided.

In Fig. 2, in full lines, the clamp A has its eye A engaged in the loopa The same figure also shows the clamp A in dotted lines engaged in theloops a and a.

What I claim as my invention is- 1, In a jar-holder, two clamps incombination, each formed of wire, one ofsaid clamps bent intermediateits ends to form a series of loops or corrugations to adjustably engagethe opposite clamp, substantially as set forth.

2. A jar-holder having in combination clamps made of Wire, one of saidclamps formed with loops or corrugations, and the other of said clampsformed with an eye to engage the loops or corrugations of the oppositeclamp, whereby the holder may be used with different sizes of jars,substantially as set forth.

3. In a j ar-holder, clamps engageable at one of their extremities theone with the other at various points, one of said clamps at oneextremity formed with loops or corrugations for the engagement of theadjacent end of the other clamp therewith whereby the holder may be usedfor different sizes of jars, the opposite extremities of said clampsprovided with handles, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specifica tion in the presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK E. RUSSELL, JR.

Witnesses:

O. B. BAENZIGER, MARY A. MARTIN.

